Victim in crane collapse identified as Microsoft lawyer

I don’t often post news from the metro beat here, but I thought this warranted mentioning, respectfully, under the circumstances: The victim in yesterday’s collapse of a construction crane in Bellevue was identified this afternoon as Matthew Ammon, an intellectual property lawyer for Microsoft.

Separately, Microsoft’s public relations agency, Waggener Edstrom, has an office in Civica Office Commons, one of the other buildings struck by the falling crane. None of the 12 employees on site at the time was injured, said Annie Herbert, the agency’s director of marketing. The office is closed today.